Quotes About Transformation

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

Death is not the end.

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.

You let me go," I say. "I'll show you all about how I'm gonna transform you.

We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Tread carefully, Marty. I mean it. The world has completely changed around you while you weren't looking.

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.

If you fight the devil, you become him." "Maybe it takes a devil to fight a devil," I said. "But at the end of that fight, Bathsheba," he said, "don't only devils remain?

Is it not a shame," she says, "that we must wait until the end of the world for all boundaries to fall?

Stop this, Conor O'Malley, the monster said, gently. This is why I came walking, to tell you this so that you may heal. You must listen. Conor swallowed again. "I'm listening." You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

soft man who made himself a hard man by drinking whisky in the classroom

Hay cosas peores que ser invisible", había dicho el monstruo, y tenía razón. Conor ya no era invisible. Ahora todos lo veían. Pero estaba más lejos que nunca.

War is a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

Mrs. Mitchell," Henna greets, her voice three sizes smaller than a minute ago.

La destrucción es algo muy gratificante.

There Are No Ends, Only Changes.

There was a rustling through the monster's leaves, like the wind stirring them in a long, slow sigh. I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.

War makes Monsters of Men

A book, it's a world all on its own, too. A world made of words, where you live for a while. And then it's over and then he'll leave that world forever.

Anthropologists like to say that to observe a culture is usually, in some small way, to change it. A similar dictum holds true for Bourdain's show. Whenever Bourdain discovered a hole-in-the-wall culinary gem, he places it on the tourist map, thereby leaching it of the authenticity that drew him to it in the first place. 'It's a gloriously doomed enterprise,' he acknowledged. 'I'm in the business of finding great places, and then we fuck them up.

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.